372 Dragons! (with Scott G. Bruce)
The History of Literature
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Dragons and Water in the Aegean World
In the asian stories that are in the book is fire a prominent feature of any of these dragons. They intend to be much more water oriented. This may well go all the way back to the sanscrit story that we began with. We think aboutouow unpacking this dragon as a cultural symbol, very muchi, the dragons as a symbol of drought and associations with water. In the agan world, this dragon is clearly associated with with wealth. It hoards wealth away. Why does it matter in that society that a dragon sits on its treasure? But in that society, the redistribution of wealth by war leaders to their followers was a way for them to cement loyalty. So
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